UK READY TO STRIKE HOUTHIS AGAIN IF ATTACKS IN RED SEA CONTINUE: FOREIGN SECRETARY DAVID CAMERON

Sun 14 January 2024:

Britain could strike Houthi targets in Yemen again if the rebel group continues to attack ships in the Red Sea, the UK’s foreign secretary, David Cameron, has indicated.

The former Conservative prime minister warned that the Iran-linked militants could force up prices in Britain if they are allowed to block the passage of container ships in the busy trade route.

The US hit another site in Yemen early on Saturday after the Houthis vowed revenge for the bombing raid carried out by the Americans and the RAF a day earlier.

Writing in the Sunday Telegraph, Lord Cameron said the airstrikes “sent an unambiguous message” to the Houthis that “we are determined to put a stop” to their attacks in the Red Sea.

And he hinted that Britain could join the US in striking the Houthis again if they continued.

“We will work with allies. We will always defend the freedom of navigation. And, crucially, we will be prepared to back words with actions,” Cameron said.

The Houthis say they are attacking only Israeli-linked ships in an attempt to force Israel to lift the siege on Gaza, but the secretary general of the International Maritime Organization, Arsenio Dominguez, told the UN last week the Houthis were not confining their attacks to shipping linked to Israel

Dosgaree with President Erdogan

The UK’s foreign secretary, David Cameron, said he did not agree with Turkey’s president that US-UK strikes on the Houthis were disproportionate.

Asked about Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s criticism by Sky News’s Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips, he said:

We don’t agree with what President Erdoğan has said. If you look at the action we have taken, it is actually backed by a very wide coalition of countries.

He is an important Nato ally but in this case we don’t agree. We see this as completely separate from the Israel-Gaza conflict.

Erdoğan said last week that the Houthis in Yemen were mounting a “successful defence” against the US and the UK after they launched air and missile strikes in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen in what they said was an effort to halt attacks on ships in the Red Sea. Turkey’s president said Britain was trying to turn the Red Sea into a “sea of blood”.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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